Greed & Austerity

The Panama Papers is a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world’s rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies in far-flung jurisdictions. According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which coordinated the research on a trove of more than 11 …more…

John Perkins is an American author. His best known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004), in which Perkins claims to have played a role in an alleged process of economic colonization of Third World countries on behalf of what he portrays as a cabal of corporations, banks, and the United States …more…

Massive multi national corporations generate BILLIONS in revenue every single year, yet routinely we see stories (such as the Google tax row from early this year) of said corporations paying absolute peanuts in tax, but have you ever wondered how they get away with it? This brilliant video by Greens EFA perfectly highlights how, in …more…

The world is a funny place. It appears that indoctrinated worship and devotion in Asia is cruel, ruthless and dictatorial, but celebrated and expected over here…? Ok, admittedly, I’m getting slightly carried away. But the parallels between our Royal’s (‘long to reign over us’) and the Kim dynasty, who have ruled North Korea since the late 1940’s, …more…

The good people at ‘TED’ have done it again. Watch here as social psychologist Paul Piff analyses the psychological effect that wealth has on us as humans. Piff uses various experiments on social behaviour, such as a rigged game of monopoly, to show us how we psychologically change with how much money/how successful we become. …more…

For as long as I can remember, The Conservatives have always battled against the ‘posh boy’ stigma. You know the one. ‘Tories are all privileged, private schooled toffs who don’t really know how the world works for actual, normal, working people.’ Well, if you had any doubts, the spending review cemented that theory. As the …more…